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A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. Shak.

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  • SCENTFUL
    1. Full of scent or odor; odorous. "A scentful nosegay." W. Browne. 2. Of quick or keen smell. The scentful osprey by the rock had fished. W. Browne.
  • BLUNDERER
    One who is apt to blunder.
  • SCENT
    1. That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior. 2. Specifically, the odor left by an animal
  • SCENTINGLY
    By scent. Fuller.
  • WORTHLESS
    Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win
  • SCENTLESS
    Having no scent. The scentless and the scented rose. Cowper.
  • FLORESCENT
    Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
  • INTUMESCENT
    Swelling up; expanding.
  • REVALESCENT
    Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be
  • ADOLESCENT
    Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
  • CONCUPISCENTIOUS
    Concupiscent.
  • LAPIDESCENT
    Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
  • CONVALESCENTLY
    In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.
  • DELITESCENT
    Lying hid; concealed.
  • DEPASCENT
    Feeding.
  • INEFFERVESCENT
    Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.
  • SUPERCRESCENT
    Growing on some other growing thing. Johnson.
  • ASCENT
    1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
  • RUFESCENT
    Reddish; tinged with red.
  • COGNOSCENTE
    A conoisseur. Mason.
  • CRESCENT
    The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants. (more info) sense 1), OF. creissant increasing, F. croissant, p. pr.
  • TABESCENT
    Withering, or wasting away.
  • ACAULESCENT
    Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray.
  • CANESCENT
    Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.

 

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